Author: Simon Davis
Simon Davis is the online marketing director for a health-care publications company and event coordinator for the Center for Inquiry–Washington, D.C. He grew up in Greece.
Atheism Is Scary Because It Reminds People of Death
“. . . People are now more likely than ever to bypass religion altogether and to look toward popular culture for guidance.”
Would You Pray with a Dying Believer?
What is a secular humanist to do under these circumstances? To pray or not to pray?
How the Nonreligious Are Reshaping American Burial
Cremation’s popularity is swelling. One factor seems to be growth among the nonreligious.
Protecting Your Service Wishes When Your Loved Ones Are Religious
Worried how your religious survivors will arrange your funeral? You can’t stop them, but you can set limits.
Greece Grapples with Blasphemy
Nowhere is the European crisis that followed the Wall Street crash of 2008—and especially the subsequent effort to combat it—felt more sharply than in Greece. The country is suffering an economic depression after five years of rapidly declining output with no end in sight as it fails to meet the demands of the European Union …